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How to Clear the Printer Queue/Spooler In Windows 7/8/10

This tutorial will show you guys how to clear stuck print jobs.

Have you ever run into the situation where you try to print something and nothing happens? You wait for it to print, but the job doesn’t go through? There are a ton of reasons why a print job may not actually print, but one of the common causes is that the printer queue has a stuck print job.

This can happen for a number of reasons. Let’s say you tried to print something a few hours back, but the printer was off. You ended up not needing the document and you forgot about it. Then you come back and try to print. The print job is added to the queue and if the previous job didn’t get removed automatically, it will be behind that print job that never got printed.

Sometimes you can manually go in and delete the print job, but sometimes you just can’t get rid of it! In this type of case, you have to clear the print queue manually. In this tutorial, I’ll show you the steps to clear the print queue.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).

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40 thoughts on “How to Clear the Printer Queue/Spooler In Windows 7/8/10

  • Dude! Pretty sure you're tired of hearing this from your wife but you are a genius. Worked perfectly!

  • This method works well although there were so many steps. On YouTube, there is a method using Command Prompt as an administrator, only two steps were needed to clear the print queue.

  • Are you kidding me ?? Does it have to go thru all those steps ?? I am afraid to try them out.

  • Hi, followed all your instructions, I had 2 files which I deleted as instructed, but when I tried printing a single print it continues to print until the printer is turned off!?

    Any idea what to try next? Is there a setting in the Printers & Scanners page where I can adjust how many copies are required for that particular printer as I think I may have adjusted it by mistake
    previously?

  • I'm watching this in 2023 and It still works, very helpful 👍

  • very effective.. thank you so much. subscribed

  • Bro, I can not express in words how much it's meaningful to me you save my time and money. Thanks man 😊

  • After entering from System32, Spool to Printer then my Printers file isn't opening, I think I don't have permission to open how. How I would be able to open it? Please, help?

  • He missed a lot of steps. He obviously knows how to do it. Goes way to fast. Terrible teacher.

  • Are you kidding me! I’m looking at the print page and I have duplicate prints ready for printing and I just want to clear them all!
    Are you telling me I have to go through all that, just to remove them? 😮

  • This one helped me after hours of waiting for the status monitor to load. Thank you. New sub

  • You’re awesome thank you!!!!!

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